i've searched far , wide, , haven't found proper solution yet. first off, winforms application using .net 4.0 , devexpress. i've been attempting retrieve building blocks (watermarks, cover pages etc) word documents (.docx), or @ least user generated template files (.dotx), user uploads application, saved database. i must able retrieve building blocks used in file. i have tried lot of different ways of retrieving them, can retrieve them built-in building blocks.dotx file, located in: c:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\microsoft\document building blocks\1033\14\built-in building blocks.dotx i haven't figured out how extract them user generated file. here work in progress code i've been using (many iterations can debug it): private void savebuildingblock(string savedfile) { try { microsoft.office.interop.word.applicationclass wordapplication = null; wordapplication = new microsoft.office.interop.word.applicationclass(); micros...